Southern Pacific Launches Winter Program on Schedule and Under Budget
24 January 2009 - 1:00AM
Marketwired
Southern Pacific Resource Corp. (TSX VENTURE: STP) is pleased to
report that its winter program is under budget and on track with
its originally planned schedule.
The company's 2008/2009 winter program has been designed to
complete all the field work required to submit an application to
the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) for a 12,000
barrel per day (bbl/d) in-situ steam-assisted gravity drainage
(SAGD) project at McKay, Alberta. Southern Pacific is currently
focused on gathering the information and details required to
delineate and confirm the viability of its STP-McKay project. The
project is located on the Athabasca fairway 60 km northwest of Fort
McMurray.
Highlights of the winter program at STP-McKay include the
following:
- Drilling approximately 19 stratigraphic test holes within the
project area, of which 50% will be cored.
- Drilling two to five water source wells.
- Conducting geo-technical analysis of the plant and pad
sites.
- Carrying out additional cap rock integrity analysis.
- Collecting further environmental data in support of the
application to the ERCB.
Work in the field began in December 2008 with the freezing of
temporary access roads, preparing the drill sites and setting up
the camp. Drilling began on January 5, 2009. To date, a total of
six test wells have been drilled. These first test wells have been
drilled on lands that currently have contingent resource assigned
and the primary purpose of the wells is to provide the necessary
delineation to orient the first phase of SAGD well pairs to be
drilled on the project. These wells have confirmed high quality
bitumen bearing oil sands with a net continuous exploitable
thickness averaging 19 meters, and an oil saturation of 70% or
greater with no thief zones.
Concurrent with the field work, Southern Pacific will be holding
several open house presentations for communities in the Fort
McMurray area. The open houses are intended to present the
STP-McKay project to the various communities and to collect
feedback and gather information to allow the company to address any
potential impacts of its project. The first of these open houses
were held on January 20, 2009 in Fort McKay and January 21, 2009 in
Fort McMurray. Information on the project is also available on
Southern Pacific's website at www.shpacific.com.
The entire winter program is expected to be completed by the end
of February 2009, after which the application for the SAGD project
will be finalized and updated with the information collected during
the program. It is anticipated the application will be submitted to
the ERCB in mid 2009.
The budget for Southern Pacific's 2008/2009 capital program has
been set at $11.6 million, which will be funded through working
capital. Southern Pacific anticipates having sufficient working
capital at June 30, 2009 to allow the company to continue to
administer the application through the regulatory process and to
look for additional opportunities for growth and project
financing.
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Contacts: Southern Pacific Resource Corp. Dave Antony CEO (403)
269-5219 Email: dantony@shpacific.com Southern Pacific Resource
Corp. Byron Lutes President (403) 269-1529 Email:
blutes@shpacific.com Website: www.shpacific.com
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